Willie Bloomquist earns CoSIDA 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Hall of Fame Honor

Sun Devil and former Major League standout Willie Bloomquist, the 1999 Pac-10 Player of the Year and 1999 Academic All-American who earned his Bachelor of Science degree in management in 2001, has been named as a 2019 inductee into the CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-America® Hall of Fame.

Today, @CoSIDAnews
is proud to announce the 2019 @googlecloud
@CoSIDAAcadAA Academic All-America Hall of Fame Class, to be inducted at #CoSIDA19 convention in June. Congrats to these four outstanding scholar-athletes & distinguished professionals: https://t.co/s2sTi32Bcl pic.twitter.com/yGEtFqs8sZ

— CoSIDA (@CoSIDAnews) April 24, 2019

He is joined by Louise Jandura of MIT (field hockey, basketball, softball), Nicole Aunapu Mann of Navy (soccer) and Greg Meredith of Notre Dame (ice hockey) in this summer's class. He joins 2013 inductee Pat Tillman as Sun Devils to earn the honor, which was started in 1998. He will be honored in June at the NACDA Convention in Orlando.
 

Good luck to @ASU_Baseball on their quest to Omaha ! Season opener tonite. Good luck boys! ??????

— Willie Bloomquist (@williebloom) February 15, 2019

Bloomquist was a three-year starter for the Sun Devils (1997-99) and a third-round pick of the Seattle Mariners in 1999 and started in 175 Arizona State games. He earned 1999 first-team All-America honors from Baseball America, ABCA and College Baseball Insider. A career .394 hitter, he finished his career with 256 hits, 42 doubles, 22 triples, 176 RBI and 15 home runs, which included a .414 mark in 1998, at the time the eighth-best mark in Sun Devil history.
 

Congrats to Greg Powers and the boys at @SunDevilHockey ! going from rags to riches in such a short time! Well deserved... good luck in post season!!! ?????? https://t.co/ty2cua3gLG

— Willie Bloomquist (@williebloom) February 19, 2019

In addition to Pac-10 Player of the Year in 1999 he also earned first-team honors in 1998. He played with USA Baseball in the summer of 1998. He also was honorable mention freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball in 1997, a second-team All-American by NCBWA and ABCA in 1998.

Took a few hours off last night to enjoy watching my favorite baseball team. Was honored to have a few moments with Willie Bloomquist A Diamondback 2011 to 2013 pic.twitter.com/aPvmUkarZu

— Dr. Regina Cobb (@recobbforazrep) April 11, 2019

Willie Bloomquist Field just rolls off the tongue ???? We're proud to have had you representing ????, @williebloom!

The @DBacks recently unveiled a "Diamonds Back" field named after the two-time alum: https://t.co/AanCyRc8df pic.twitter.com/SLdUUcL0RP

— USA Baseball (@USABaseball) May 25, 2018